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obama finally gets his man. the u.s. senate confirms chuck hagel. what increased demand for cocoanuts has failed to bear fruit for indonesia as farmers. pope benedict xvi is making his final appearance in st. peter's square as the roman catholic pope -- his final appearance in at st. peter's square. he is the first pope in 600 years to resign. >> in these recent months, i felt my weakening strength. i prayed and asked for in light meant to make the right decision for the good of the church. >> barbara, amid the huge outpouring of affection from the faithful gathered there. >> absolutely. a lot of people have turned out to say goodbye to pope benedict xvi. 50,000 tickets were sold. it is more likely that there are about 150,000 people around the vatican and the main road that leads to it. people are still walking towards st. peter's square, but they're being redirected to other parts around the square where there are big screens where they can watch the pope. nothing compared to the figures of the people we saw for the funeral of john paul back in 20
obama finally gets his man. the u.s. senate confirms chuck hagel. what increased demand for cocoanuts has failed to bear fruit for indonesia as farmers. pope benedict xvi is making his final appearance in st. peter's square as the roman catholic pope -- his final appearance in at st. peter's square. he is the first pope in 600 years to resign. >> in these recent months, i felt my weakening strength. i prayed and asked for in light meant to make the right decision for the good of the...
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do you think president obama appointed chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's difficult to say we will see but i'm skeptical that obama really is out to redefine to be america's relationship with israel and i would add to that in addition to the hail appointment we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with . who will continue many of the covert programs of course our drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia and that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for real coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran there is an argument often made in washington that it's fall would be a strategic victory against iran what can you say about an approach like that first of all at this point iran's most important arab ally is no longer syria it's iraq thanks in no small part to the united states iran's most important strategic ally in the arab world is iraq. even in syria you know bashar al assad is still
do you think president obama appointed chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's difficult to say we will see but i'm skeptical that obama really is out to redefine to be america's relationship with israel and i would add to that in addition to the hail appointment we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with . who will continue many of the covert programs of course our drone program but many of the covert programs that would...
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. >> thursday was not a good day for chuck hagel, president obama's tourist to be his next defense secretary. his old friend and fellow vietnam veteran john mccain jump all over hagel for opposing the surge in iraq. >> were you correct or incorrect when you said the search would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? correct or incorrect? yes or no? are you going tonswer the queson, nator hage the question is, were you right or wrong? i would like to answer whether you were right or wrong. and you are fe to elaborate. >> i am not going to give you a yes or no answer -- >> let the record show that you refuse to answer the question. >> he finally gave the answer he wanted to give. >> i saw the suffering and consequences of a war. i did second think the srch. would this bwortthe crife? we lost almost 1200 dead americans during that period was it required, necessary? >> how much of that exchange was political, how much was personal, and how much was related to our defense policy, mark? >> 92, 11, 13. [laughter] a lot of it was personal. one could not watch th
. >> thursday was not a good day for chuck hagel, president obama's tourist to be his next defense secretary. his old friend and fellow vietnam veteran john mccain jump all over hagel for opposing the surge in iraq. >> were you correct or incorrect when you said the search would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam? correct or incorrect? yes or no? are you going tonswer the queson, nator hage the question is, were you right or wrong? i would...
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commander in chief barack obama has nominated charles chuck hagel for secretary of defense. hagel testified before the senate armed services committed tee this week. is senator john mccain grilling hagel about hagel's opposition to the surge in iraq in 2007. >> were you correct in your judgment. >> i would defer that to history. >> when you were right or wrong about the surge. >> i'll explain why i played those comments. >> i want to know if you were right or wrong. that is a direct question. i expect a direct answer. >> senator hagel explained he opposed the surge in iraq because it cost nearly 1200 american lives. >> i saw the consequences and the suffering and the horror of war. so i did question a surge. i always ask the question, is this going to be worth the sacrifice? because there will be sacrifice. >> that was hagel's emphasis on the cost factor. my question is this. his emphasis on the cost factor in military decisions, does it serve as a dodge to senator mccain's bullet? or did he mean this completely from the heart? and if he did, isn't he exactly the man we want
commander in chief barack obama has nominated charles chuck hagel for secretary of defense. hagel testified before the senate armed services committed tee this week. is senator john mccain grilling hagel about hagel's opposition to the surge in iraq in 2007. >> were you correct in your judgment. >> i would defer that to history. >> when you were right or wrong about the surge. >> i'll explain why i played those comments. >> i want to know if you were right or...
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barack obama had taken that position. the reality was, it was another backdoor attempt, and jim webb put it on the record. another backdoor attempt of the administration of george bush and on rumsfeld and dick cheney to say now we have a reason to go to war. that is the first time we have ever singled out any entity and any other country as a terrorist organization and said, okay, we have to single them out. >> a third of the senate voted for that position. >> let me ask you, marc. is the irg a terrorist organization or not? >> i do not know. >> let him finish the answer. >> i do know this. i know when it was politically and realistically. was it an attempt to give more strength to an administration that had taken us into a war that was a disaster, which has been a disaster, and which has left the united states even more isolated and strengthen iran? because of the invasion and occupation of iraq, iran is a more dominant, influential, and stronger flow in the world. >> immigration reform. republicans get the message. >> a
barack obama had taken that position. the reality was, it was another backdoor attempt, and jim webb put it on the record. another backdoor attempt of the administration of george bush and on rumsfeld and dick cheney to say now we have a reason to go to war. that is the first time we have ever singled out any entity and any other country as a terrorist organization and said, okay, we have to single them out. >> a third of the senate voted for that position. >> let me ask you, marc....
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told barack obama that he was getting ruled by the generals. she was skeptical quietly about the intervention in libya and now opposes any intervention in syria. gwen: thank you all. we want to take note passing of two men. ed koch, the three-term mayor of new york who transformed the city and became a celebrity in his own right. and max campleman, a diplomat who negotiated cold war treaties -- treatries and during one stage act is as moderator for "washington week in review." we have to go for now but the conversation continues online on the "washington week" webcast extra. we'll be talking about the massachusetts senate race and other topics and on our home page peak into the "washington week" video vault to see what doyle said about the immigration story back in 2007. he looks the same. keep up with daily developments over the pbs news hour and we'll see you again next week on "washington week." good night. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we know why we're here. to connect your forces to what they need when th
told barack obama that he was getting ruled by the generals. she was skeptical quietly about the intervention in libya and now opposes any intervention in syria. gwen: thank you all. we want to take note passing of two men. ed koch, the three-term mayor of new york who transformed the city and became a celebrity in his own right. and max campleman, a diplomat who negotiated cold war treaties -- treatries and during one stage act is as moderator for "washington week in review." we have...
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or so that prime minister netanyahu he and his government will be putting a lot of pressure on the obama administration that iran is approaching whatever red line that you know who draws that it's time for the united states to step up to the plate and deal with this problem in a decisive way and even if they don't succeed initially in persuading obama because they'll they'll leverage it to get more sanctions on iran to get other kinds of pressure on iran if they will try and keep iran you know do you think president obama pointed chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's difficult to say we will see but i'm skeptical that obama really is out to redefine to be america's relationship with israel and i would add to that in addition to the hail appointment we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone hill the israelis are just fine with who will continue what many of the covert programs of course are drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia and that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve
or so that prime minister netanyahu he and his government will be putting a lot of pressure on the obama administration that iran is approaching whatever red line that you know who draws that it's time for the united states to step up to the plate and deal with this problem in a decisive way and even if they don't succeed initially in persuading obama because they'll they'll leverage it to get more sanctions on iran to get other kinds of pressure on iran if they will try and keep iran you know...
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a lot of pressure on the obama administration that iran is approaching whatever red line that you know who draws that it's time for the united states to step up to the plate and deal with this problem in a decisive way and even if they don't succeed initially in persuading obama because they'll they'll leverage it to get more sanctions on iran to get other kinds of pressure on iran they will try and keep iran. do you think president obama point to chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's difficult to say maybe we'll see but i'm skeptical that obama really is out to redefine be american relationship with israel and i would add to that in addition to the. point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone hill the israelis are just fine with who will continue what many of the covert programs of course are drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia and that would be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for we all are coming to terms of the
a lot of pressure on the obama administration that iran is approaching whatever red line that you know who draws that it's time for the united states to step up to the plate and deal with this problem in a decisive way and even if they don't succeed initially in persuading obama because they'll they'll leverage it to get more sanctions on iran to get other kinds of pressure on iran they will try and keep iran. do you think president obama point to chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's...
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the iraq war on the jewish lobby with some believing he could also be too soft on iran but president obama firmly believes he's the right man for the job is gone she can reports chuck hagel was confirmed by the senate fifty eight votes for forty one vote against a narrow vote as you can see but he can finally leave all that apologizing and repenting behind and he had to do a lot of that to get the job shopping has been working very hard to tailor his views so as to please congress as a senator chuck hagel allowed himself to oppose the surge in iraq to criticize israel's policies to oppose seeing war when they want as an option but as the president's nominee for the defense secretary position he backtracked on much of what he had said before and did it. as as even his supporters noted in a rather clumsy way but in a way that showed how much he wanted the job and the whole confirmation process including the attack campaign against him including the filibuster ten days ago showed how intolerant the u.s. congress is of alternative thought on foreign policy ten days ago the senators knew quite
the iraq war on the jewish lobby with some believing he could also be too soft on iran but president obama firmly believes he's the right man for the job is gone she can reports chuck hagel was confirmed by the senate fifty eight votes for forty one vote against a narrow vote as you can see but he can finally leave all that apologizing and repenting behind and he had to do a lot of that to get the job shopping has been working very hard to tailor his views so as to please congress as a senator...
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eventually be confirmed but they chose to block the vote as many say just to make a point president obama certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated him anyway it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and we should the point where even the president said there's too much work talking going on now mandating chuck hagel could be his way of bringing it down a notch the president is also quite aware of the general war fatigue in the country but the u.s. congress doesn't seem to have that same war fatigue this chuck hagel confirmation hearing showed quite to the contrary never too tired for war it seems one more thing it thing important to point out here chuck hagel as defense secretary lew not be in a position to generate policy is there to fulfill the president's policies probably his main job will be manag
eventually be confirmed but they chose to block the vote as many say just to make a point president obama certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated him anyway it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and we...
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vote as many say just to make a point well guy it's probably fair to say that anyone that president obama would have nominated would have been controversial since it's hard to please those lawmakers up there on capitol hill but why do you think the president chose chuck hagel specifically given the controversy that's erupted over this. this was a very interesting decision on president obama's part he certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated haggling we i know it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point and this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point but by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and reached a point where the president were even the president says there is too much war talk going on nominating chalk a go could be his way of bringing bringing it down a notch he is also quite aware of the general war fatigue in the country but the us tom was doesn't seem to have that same war
vote as many say just to make a point well guy it's probably fair to say that anyone that president obama would have nominated would have been controversial since it's hard to please those lawmakers up there on capitol hill but why do you think the president chose chuck hagel specifically given the controversy that's erupted over this. this was a very interesting decision on president obama's part he certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john...
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right now another of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief for he faces his latest battle today coming up a report on chuck hagel. being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan stuff. so i just after ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital britain's unemployment benefits aim to provide a safety net for anyone between jobs looking for the next career opportunity for some the payouts are so attractive getting out of bed to go to work doesn't seem quite worth it. reports i couldn't really believe my luck to be on. a dream i thought this is amazing you know british government is helping me out you know i needed somewhere to live and i don't have a job not the words you expect to hear from someone who's fallen on hard times housing benefits allowed stephanie to rent a flat in this sport block in london's glitzy mayfair and by myself i could always barely afford a studio in central london when i was working and. looking for a job so. it's a sprawling and complicated system but one that allows a family of four to claim up to thirty five thousand pounds a
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the only thing is they need to together and obama thinks he them on the ropes. republicans cannot get themselves together. >> we just heard dr. rand paul sequestration was the president's idea. >> who cares whose idea it was. it is the president's responsibility. typical off washington. the blame game. it's the president's responsibility, and particularly a second term president who has just won .eelection it is his responsibility to rise above this nonsense. >> i want to show you something. is a cover of a "new york daily news peacoat the speakeker about house comained exiting to the back door. first, the public complaint blameey seemed to president clinton. aftea while, house speaker gingrich''s numbers went down. mostid it was the single mistake. can never be sure how these will play. taking a gamble. >> the gingrich examplis certrtainly instructive. he was "time" of magagazine's mn was atyear and then he littleafavorable, just a on a slow donald trump wednesday. really y bad numbers. he never totally recovered from it. politicalat the heading into this confr
the only thing is they need to together and obama thinks he them on the ropes. republicans cannot get themselves together. >> we just heard dr. rand paul sequestration was the president's idea. >> who cares whose idea it was. it is the president's responsibility. typical off washington. the blame game. it's the president's responsibility, and particularly a second term president who has just won .eelection it is his responsibility to rise above this nonsense. >> i want to show...
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well after a long a partisan fueled standoff obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on later on tuesday and chuck hagel certainly drew the ire of republicans from the outset and some of his views put him at all with his own party at a rather lackluster performance at his initial confirmation hearing well that didn't help either guy nature can reports. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're going to allow the full senate to vote because what happened ten days ago was that the senators voted to postpone the vote and to continue the debate so it's all likely that they're going to keep stalling the vote over confirmation and he will be confirmed there's no doubt about that the votes are there but the humiliation that he had to grow through during these last few months sent a message all by itself right now chuck hagel is this great painting figure who keeps apologizing for the positions he has taken before that the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not
well after a long a partisan fueled standoff obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on later on tuesday and chuck hagel certainly drew the ire of republicans from the outset and some of his views put him at all with his own party at a rather lackluster performance at his initial confirmation hearing well that didn't help either guy nature can reports. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're...
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and now that obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his laces battle today and coming up later in the program or of course from where chuck hagel stuns after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. and also peace in mali doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region but is hells just a few miles. having tried the steak it will reportedly be the current for iran today as well power's meet with tehran nuclear representatives in kazakhstan according to sources these that make republic will even be offered a laptop also actions that is a of tehran shuts down a fortified nuclear site buried in a moment and also of its enrichment activities in return according to reports sanctions on the trade in gold and precious metals could be lifted the measures along with an oil involve go have put tremendous pressure on iran but as a notion reports now they've also prepared the ground for some of the country's exports. the international ban on iranian oil cost the coun
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some members of this committee strongly opposed president obama's foreign-policy. regardless of how we may feel about the president's policies, or float on senator hagel nomination will not change those policies. there is a risk here it is that the defeat of this domination will leave the department of defense leaderless at a time when we face in this budgetary challenges in our military is engaged in combat operations overseas. such an absence of senior leaders would be unlikely to benefit either our national defense or men and away uniform, and i would add, given the recent explosion of a nuclear device by north korea, the delay in adopting this nomination and approving it, i think, will send the exact wrong message to north korea. the president needs to have a secretary of defense in him he has stressed who will give him unvarnished advice, a person of integrity and one who has a personal understanding of the consequences of decisions relative to the use of military force. senator hagel certainly has those critically important qualifications, and he is well qual
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and not obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest battle today coming up later in the program the report when chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. and the cost of peace and money doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region and the details in just a few months for the. italians are waking up today to deadlocks political system and all the votes are still being counted no single political group has enough support to take the reins of the debt ridden nation so this time the rise of candidates and former comedian but the green though has taken many by surprise after voters turned out in that droves to make his this strong this past week in a silly but is the center left coalition led by pier luigi bersani that has won control of the lower house and it also claimed the most seats in the senate but not enough to be able to govern and political on its own restfulness says struggling attorney and feel let down by that point i
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well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest coming up we report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. oh well germany is a posting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of some of those countries including saudi arabia off grain and qatar and now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy let's take a detailed look now at how this has broken out if we can pull up the graphics and we will in a moment now last year the total value of germany's approved arms exports to gulf states stood at almost one and a half billion euros you can see that right there they soared from two thousand and eleven as you can see right there when exports stood at a little more than five hundred million euros saudi arabia was the main recipient of the weapons with its share in two thousand and twelve being nine times bigger than the year before that will be in the slide there it is nine times over there and how we als
well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest coming up we report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. oh well germany is a posting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of some of those countries including saudi arabia off grain and qatar and now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy let's take a...
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start of taking a look at president obama's state of the union address. last night touched on everything from jobs to guns to immigration the president covered a lot of ground in artie's meghan lopez was at the capitol last night to ask lawmakers some critical questions mr speaker. the president of united states a phrase that brings the media to the steps of capitol hill year after year five hundred thirty five lawmakers some forty four million viewers all looking to hear one man's plan for our country's future party was there and beyond the pomp. the grand handing and yes the clapping by we had our team came to capitol hill to find out what the real state of the union is when the actual hill blogger said that he believes that the civil union a strong the state of the government is in shambles you believe that i think there's a lot to be said about that i mean i think one of the things that this speech hopefully will do is elevate the conversation so that we're not just having these squabbles about you know basically self-inflicted wounds the question to
start of taking a look at president obama's state of the union address. last night touched on everything from jobs to guns to immigration the president covered a lot of ground in artie's meghan lopez was at the capitol last night to ask lawmakers some critical questions mr speaker. the president of united states a phrase that brings the media to the steps of capitol hill year after year five hundred thirty five lawmakers some forty four million viewers all looking to hear one man's plan for our...
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this.be very blunt about barack obama had taken that position. the reality was, they saw it as another backdoor attempt -- and jim webb put it on the record. another attempt at the administration of george h.w. bush and donald rumsfeld, and dick cheney to say we now have a reason to go to war. that was the first time that we have ever single out any entity in any other country as a terrorist organization, a part of the government. we have to single them out. >> one-third of the senate voted for that position. >> let me ask you, it is the irg a terrorist organization or not? >> do not know if they are a terrorist organization. >> let him finish the answer. >> i do know this, what it was politically and realistically, was it an attempt to give more strength to an administration that had taken us into a war, which has been a disaster, which has left the united states even more isolated in the world, and has strengthened iran? because of the invasion and occupation in iraq, iran is a more dominant and influential and stronger foe in the world. >> imm
this.be very blunt about barack obama had taken that position. the reality was, they saw it as another backdoor attempt -- and jim webb put it on the record. another attempt at the administration of george h.w. bush and donald rumsfeld, and dick cheney to say we now have a reason to go to war. that was the first time that we have ever single out any entity in any other country as a terrorist organization, a part of the government. we have to single them out. >> one-third of the senate...
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president barack obama has picked for the country's next defense secretary has gone out of his way to persuade the senate he's the right man for the job when attacks from his previous views and statements at the confirmation hearing took a gold made it clear he will act in accordance with white house policies if his candidacy is approved are going to can listen to the session which brought some heated discussion but little hope of change. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on is
president barack obama has picked for the country's next defense secretary has gone out of his way to persuade the senate he's the right man for the job when attacks from his previous views and statements at the confirmation hearing took a gold made it clear he will act in accordance with white house policies if his candidacy is approved are going to can listen to the session which brought some heated discussion but little hope of change. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his...
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he the president obama. is. pursuing broad long term american interests in establishing a stable order in the middle east one of the issues that people are criticizing haydel for where a lot of the criticism actually comes because of some statements he made in the past namely i am a senator from nebraska not from israel the jewish lobby how do you think that will affect his nomination well i think his statement that he is the senator from nebraska from israel will actually be very positive for him. i think i think most americans will say yeah that's right he should be the senator from nebraska not from israel of course there will be those supporters of israel who interpret it in a negative way but i think on balance that will be a pause a positive i think his comment about the jewish lobby. because of ursule i don't think it will stop his nomination. but it would have been better if he had said the israel who because there are of course many american jews who don't support. the positions of israel and so by usin
he the president obama. is. pursuing broad long term american interests in establishing a stable order in the middle east one of the issues that people are criticizing haydel for where a lot of the criticism actually comes because of some statements he made in the past namely i am a senator from nebraska not from israel the jewish lobby how do you think that will affect his nomination well i think his statement that he is the senator from nebraska from israel will actually be very positive for...
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that would be transparency for russia situations well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up a report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. well germany has been boosting it is its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of countries like saudi arabia qatar and bahrain now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy is let's have a detailed look now at how this breaks down we have a little chart here german arms to gulf states now last year the total value of germany's approved arms exports to gulf states today is almost one and a half a billion dollar euro's they soared from two thousand and eleven as you can see right there with exports stood at just over five hundred million euros saudi arabia actually was the main recipient of the weapons with its share in two thousand and twelve being nine times bigger than the year before there you can see it right there were earlier r.t. spok
that would be transparency for russia situations well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up a report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. well germany has been boosting it is its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of countries like saudi arabia qatar and bahrain now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing...
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. >> when obama took over it it is it now 14 percent. emmanuel cleaver of the congressional black caucus said 14 percent. if there were a person in office we would be marchingolt white house . on met the press thape said blackings are fairing worse under president obama. he was describing the numbers. the fact of the matter is it, my father said i never got a job from a poor person. take money from rich people you have problems. ronald reagan lowered taxes and slowed down the spending. obama has done the opposite. >> what you said makings perfect sense. but that is not popular when you talk about it in the africa-american community is it >> it is not. but i dare say 90 percent of the people. high told black people in the economic recovery we would be lookingalt 14 percent unemployment and that is lower than the people that abandoned it a substantial number of people would not have voted for him. the number one reason the economy and he's not delivering. >> talk about the policiless that are hurting black americanings whampt were the poli
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he believed obama was going to lose reelection. they were telling him the right was being told over here. he say no termer. he can never get reelected and soon you will have a president that is your kind of president. someone who said what you want, you will get. the message he was getting. chuck schumer called him at the height of the campaign and said obama is going to win and the u.s. starts to adjust for that. between him winning a race that netanyahu never thought he was going to win and missing no opportunity and netanyahu himself ending up in sort of a messy situation, i think that's interesting and it's an interesting context to the visit. >> mitt romney promised he would make israel his first. >> his first. i want to quickly mention and talk about the hagel confirmation hearings, i'm interested to watch, he will make it through the committee and get confirmed, but how many republicans are going to vote for him? right now only two of 45 are on the record saying they are yes votes. probably about 20 have not said anything. m
he believed obama was going to lose reelection. they were telling him the right was being told over here. he say no termer. he can never get reelected and soon you will have a president that is your kind of president. someone who said what you want, you will get. the message he was getting. chuck schumer called him at the height of the campaign and said obama is going to win and the u.s. starts to adjust for that. between him winning a race that netanyahu never thought he was going to win and...
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he was denied it again, so he couldn't stand barack obama and can't stand anyone that barack obama nominates. and the surge was something that was his. i think that almost in a way john mccain made the surge into the war as john mccain would have fought it as commander-in-chief. and anyone who questions it gets the wrath of mccain. and i watched that hearing, that part of the hearing with colonel jack jacobs and pat murphy, the governor of pennsylvania who served in iraq. and both of those guys were at the bottom of the pile. and you view war differently. but the lesson that these two men took from vietnam seems to have been so different. hagel took the questioning, the same thing patrick murphy feels, being lied to and feeling anger for knowing you friends died for what you believe to be a lie. >> here's lindsay graham, badgering defense nominee hagel. about his whether the iranian revolutionary guard should be designated terrorist organization. i think this is aimed at south carolina's right wing. let's listen. >> if there was a vote on the floor of the senate this afternoon, to label the
he was denied it again, so he couldn't stand barack obama and can't stand anyone that barack obama nominates. and the surge was something that was his. i think that almost in a way john mccain made the surge into the war as john mccain would have fought it as commander-in-chief. and anyone who questions it gets the wrath of mccain. and i watched that hearing, that part of the hearing with colonel jack jacobs and pat murphy, the governor of pennsylvania who served in iraq. and both of those guys...
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down its foreign military campaigns no matter who's manning the helm at the pentagon and president obama was elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope tim isn't was there with shutting down gitmo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those cameras and tell you what they would be the key factors are that we need to take care of it be a social safety nets or the economy or or jobs being created in this country the united states will always have money for two things you can be rest assured bakers and bullets we already see the headlines coming out of the mainstream media talking about the sequester and how this is going to get our military we will have nonstop propaganda being a bombarded out of the people that fear of reducing the budget of the military so i'm absolutely confident that every secretary of defense will have a very very loose p
down its foreign military campaigns no matter who's manning the helm at the pentagon and president obama was elected in two thousand and a we you know the same kind of hope tim isn't was there with shutting down gitmo and ending these wars and fighting the right kind of wars but then we find out when you know after the deal is done after the elections are over the nomination process is over we continue with our war footing around the world no matter what the politicians come before those...
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new details emerging about the immigration bill being drafted by the obama administration. that legislation reportedly lays out a process for illegal immigrants to become legal residents but that proposal is not going over well with some republicans. good morning. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm eric shawn. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. great to have you here. president saying we only pass the boil to congress if lawmakers can't agree on legislation of their own. doug is joining us live from washington. >> reporter: white house says it's a backup plan but they have come up with their own reform bill. president's plan that was leaked to u.s.a. today would offer special virsas to illegal immigrants that would put them on a pathway to full permanent citizenship. they say the president's plan will come into play only if congress fails to act. >> all it says to me we are doing exactly what we said we would do, we will be prepared in the bipartisan talks which we are aggressively supporting, if those don't work out, we'll have an option that we will be supporting. >> rep
new details emerging about the immigration bill being drafted by the obama administration. that legislation reportedly lays out a process for illegal immigrants to become legal residents but that proposal is not going over well with some republicans. good morning. welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm eric shawn. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. great to have you here. president saying we only pass the boil to congress if lawmakers can't agree on legislation of their own. doug is joining...
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under obama, it has been negative. if obama is a socialist he is terrible at it. here is the interesting thing, if the economy is shrinking because the economy is shrink, we now added new jobs, almost 200,000 jobs in december. and we added more than 150,000 jobs in january. what is amazing about this, this period was fiscal cliff element, it was what everybody was saying the economy really needed was deficit reduction. and this is a period in which we didn't come to a big deficit reduction deal. what we did is raise taxes. it cut the deficit a bit, but not a big deal. what happened to the markets? somehow we kept adding jobs and the stock market did really well. it all worked out reasonably okay. so here is what we learned. cutting government spending hurts economic growth. no doubt about it. that means doing it in a bad economy may not be such a good idea. but increasing taxes a bit, not coming to the big deficit deal. the private sector and even the markets don't seem all that concerned. the last week should cause a lot of people in washington to re-think what t
under obama, it has been negative. if obama is a socialist he is terrible at it. here is the interesting thing, if the economy is shrinking because the economy is shrink, we now added new jobs, almost 200,000 jobs in december. and we added more than 150,000 jobs in january. what is amazing about this, this period was fiscal cliff element, it was what everybody was saying the economy really needed was deficit reduction. and this is a period in which we didn't come to a big deficit reduction...